Hair-dressing



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NELLIE S. HAVVLEY, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

HAIR-DRESSING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,606, dated December 3, 1889. Application filcd September 21, 1889. Serial No. 324,661. (No specimens.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Y Be it known that I, NELLIE S. HAWLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Omaha, in the countyof Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented a new Said composition is produced or made in the manner following, to wit: Put together the oil origanum and balsam copaiba, to which add eight ounces of pure alcohol and thoroughly agitate the mixture. Then place the gum-arable in one quart of pure water and put same over a slow fire, continually stirring it until the gum-arable is completely dissolved. Then let the solution of gumarabic cool. Then take twenty-four ounces of pure alcohol and stir slowly the cooled solu- 30 tion of gum-arabic therein. Then add the oil of origanum and balsam copaiba, which have been cut by the alcohol as aforesaid, and thoroughly, agitate the mixture thus produced. To the last-named mixture add two quarts of pure water and strain the mixture so produced through extra-fine bolting-cloth. To the strained mixture add the two ounces of extract of white rose and bottle the same.

In using the above-named composition the hair to be curled or crimped should be first saturated with it, then crimped or curled by means of a warm iron or winding the hair upon any substance, such as cloth, tin-foil, &c.

' What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ot' the'United States. is

The herein-described composition of matter to be used upon the human hair before the crimping or. curling thereof to make it 

